But, humans have rights in our system, right? I mean, without that, humans are no different than any other animals. So, we must afford each other rights or expose our base, animalistic sides.
You know what else humans have in "our" system?
A legal name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_name
Legal name is often the name which an individual is called at birth or which appears on their birth certificate (see birth name) or marriage certificate (in places that have a statute allowing a name change to be recorded at marriage).
A person's legal name typically comprises their given name and a family name. The order varies according to culture and country. There are also country-by-country differences on changes of legal names by marriage, see married name.
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United States
Most states still allow the common law of changing one's name through non-fraudulent use and this is actually the most common method since most women who marry do not petition a court under the statutorily prescribed method, but simply use a new name (typically the husband's, a custom which started under the theory of coverture where a woman lost her identity and most rights when she married).[1] Most state courts have held that a legally assumed name (i.e., for a non-fraudulent purpose) is a legal name and usable as their true name, though assumed names are often not considered the person's technically true name.[2]
References
1 In re Natale, 527 S.W.2d 402 (Mo. App. 1975); In re Kruzel, 226 N.W.2d 458 (Wis. 1975).
2 Stuart v. Board of Supervisors, 295 A.2d 223 (Md. Ct. App. 1972); In re Hauptly, 312 N.E.2d 857 (Ind. 1974); United States v. Cox, 593 F.2d 46 (6th Cir. 1979). See also 10 U.S.C. § 1551 (2006).
I wasn't chipped at birth. They didn't take fingerprints or DNA and the government didn't issue me a name. I'm assuming it's the same with Sam.
There are many names that I respond to - Brock, hey you, dickhead, next - but none of them can be linked to pieces of paper with no identifying marks. It's not as if baby switching and snatching never occur, so I cannot prove or disprove that any birth certificate is mine. Neither can anyone else prove or disprove it (without a lot of exhumation and a lot of luck getting usable DNA from corpses).
The flip side is, I could claim any male certificate of live birth as my own.
Sam's situation is a childish game on the part of the bureaucrats. They already know what they think they need to know, but they want him to vocalize a name to prove they can force him to do anything.
What if he vocalizes the name they want, and they continue the game just to see how much dance they can get out of the monkey? Great, if that's your name, produce a birth certificate. Prove that that is your birth certificate (INS challenges birth certificates all the time). Produce familial DNA for comparison. Produce a birth certificate for that person. Prove that is their birth certificate. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Would it be surprising that folks currently exhibiting immature behavior would continue that behavior? Wouldn't it be more surprising if they didn't?